Everard's Printing Works

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|architect=Henry Williams

|client=Edward Everard

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The Former Everard's Printing Works is at 37-38 Broad Street in Bristol, England. It has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.{{NHLE|desc=Former Everard's Printing Works|num=1281234|accessdate=23 October 2016}}

It was built in 1900 by Henry Williams, with the Modern Style facade by William James Neatby,{{cite web|title=Victorian Bristol |url=http://www.bristolreads.com/downloads/walking_guides/victorian_bristol.pdf |publisher=Brunel 2000 |accessdate=23 October 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222223638/http://www.bristolreads.com/downloads/walking_guides/victorian_bristol.pdf |archivedate=22 February 2012 }} who was the chief designer for Doulton and Co.,{{cite web|title=Everard's Printing Works, Bristol|url=http://englishbuildings.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07/everards-printing-works-bristol-bristol.html|publisher=English Buildings|accessdate=23 October 2016}} as the main works for the printer Edward Everard. It has a triple archway design on the ground floor with two on the first floor and four on the upper floor. Above them is a female figure holding a lamp and a mirror symbolising Light and Truth.{{cite web|title=Edward Everard Building|url=https://www.about-bristol.co.uk/arc-07.asp|publisher=About Bristol|accessdate=23 October 2016}} The arches were to reflect the Church of St John the Baptist a little further along Broad Street.{{cite web|title=Edward Everard's Printing Works|url=http://www.buildinghistory.org/bristol/everards.shtml|website=Bristol Past|publisher=Building History|accessdate=23 October 2016}}{{cite journal|last1=Harvey|first1=Charles|last2=Press|first2=Jon|title=A Bristol Printing House: Edward Everard's Monument to Gutenberg, Morris and the Printer's Art|journal=The Journal of the William Morris Society|date=1994|volume=X|issue=4|pages=40–47|url=http://www.morrissociety.org/publications/JWMS/10.4Spring1994/SP94.10.4.HarveyPress.pdf|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024025105/http://www.morrissociety.org/publications/JWMS/10.4Spring1994/SP94.10.4.HarveyPress.pdf|archivedate=2016-10-24}}

Most of the red brick building was demolished in 1970 but the facade was preserved as it is the largest decorative Doulton Carrara ware tile facade of its kind in Britain (so named from its resemblance to Carrara marble). The contributions of William Morris and Johannes Gutenberg to printing and literature are celebrated in the design.{{cite web|title=Everard's Printing Works, Bristol, UK|url=http://manchesterhistory.net/architecture/1920/everards.html|publisher=Manchester History|accessdate=23 October 2016}} Behind each figure are typefaces representing their work.{{cite web|title=Edward Everard printing works|url=http://www.architecturecentre.co.uk/assets/files/education/Building%20Case%20study%20-%20Edward%20Everard%20printing%20works.pdf|publisher=Architecture Centre|accessdate=23 October 2016}} After the demolition of the rest of the building the facade was incorporated into a new building which was used as offices by the NatWest bank. It was later converted to be the Clayton Hotel, which opened in 2022.{{cite web|title=Clayton Hotel Opens at Everards Printworks|url=https://www.gardiner.com/newsroom/2022/clayton-hotel-opens-at-everards-printworks|publisher=Gardiner|accessdate=12 September 2022}}